[coachdarek]

Should I be willing to relocate to US for FAANG internship or it would be fully remote? If need to relocate, will I be responsible for paying flight tickets and lodging? > If companies have given you an offer to work in the US for an in-office internship, then will pay for any flights/relocation for you to get there. They will not explicitly pay for housing, but often will have some stipend to help with the housing costs. With any FAANG internship, you would be paid more than plenty to live comfortably. This way if you want to splurge on a nicer place you can choose to, and similarly you can choose cheaper options if you prefer. I think most companies will be doing internships in-office but it depends on the company. Are you thinking for this year or next year?

Submit resume directly to company website? > I would say never do this unless a recruiter said to do this after you set up a phone call AND they told you'd they set up an interview. Online applications are basically black holes so don't apply. Often times if you get filtered out automatically here, you can't apply again even through a recruiter directly.

Also, what is the best way to get accepted for FAANG interview for someone with no work experience? Connect with FAANG recruiters on LinkedIn and direct message them? > You'll want to add some experience to your resume. As a college student you don't need much. If you have any programming projects from coursework, you can put them on your GitHub (clean up the READMEs to make it look professional) and then put on your resume as "Open Source Programming". When you put "Coursework" recruiters don't take it seriously, so make sure it doesn't have "school project" written anywhere on it. They will never actually read the code so spend a good amount of time cleaning up the readme. Then update LinkedIn profiles to show the same thing. Once you've done this, then directly reach out to 25 recruiters per day. Recruiting is a numbers game so just keep reaching out. Even a 1% success rate means you get a phone call with recruiter every 4 days.

Maybe try to get some experience in other tech company before applying to FAANG to maximize chances? > If your goal is to go straight to FAANG, I think it makes sense to just start going for FAANG internships as a junior.

One thing that was not discussed here is actually preparing for the interview. Once you get the interview, you need to actually be able to pass. I'd say 90% of the time spent should be on grinding LC and studying technical concepts and only 10% recruiting after you're able to solve interview questions reliable (150 LC-mediums completed).